I am an interdisciplinary political theorist and environmental-humanities scholar whose work revalues concepts conventionally understood as negative or deficient—decline, decay, death, emptiness, and disgust—to develop new accounts of ecological politics, multispecies democracy, care, and justice. 

My intervention is not merely that these maligned processes can sometimes be productive, but that environmental thought’s attachment to preservation, endurance, repair, and growth can obscure harms caused by persistence, plenitude, and forced continuation.